The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1895, Page 12

o THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER ,26, 1895 12 KA SOCIETY AT CHRISTMAS, The Week Devoted to Home and Preparations for the Season. BURLINGAME AND DEL MONTE. i House Parties at San Mateo—Staples | Christmas Tree—Announcement of Events in View. Christmas week, which opened on Mon- be, as usual, devoted for the most to home entertainments and | gather and to preparations for the | holiday season generally, which closes on day, part though for the most also in anticipation tne near | the festival followed so closely r,and at all the gather- | en of trees { mistle- sense these great festivals and of world becomes marked who arra or who direct the 1army have lon stivals will not allow i that their plans must bend | By common consent Christma week been left to the bome ldren. and this year will prove no | m to the rule. itime th , and thoss has - elder members of hie to Del Monte and | rew year. This 4 custom of th i is now becon East | ing | ou: eems settled, unfavor- ther a number of ded. Huber's orchestra leaves | early in the week. The bati- se is to be opened for the on,and | New Year ball nade | and enjoy Burl ame es and Spor be the clubhouse and the | 100d wiil all, the first ening dan danc arnest un- Friday last the | nd one long | llon_of 0dd Fellows’ < will be the Friday Fortnightly nt Hall, where it is | will put up some st, the a merry on i mbers of the , 50 the youths who 1 2ll_sround ¥ will be 1 do not p troublin to say nothing of same may be officer, has an to people. dinners were ers were fol- > most enjoyable one Miss Rose Hooper at the bumping nst., the teach ol were most d luncheon n them s | iv rice Sachs, as: 1 receive at he sted by & number of home Ness the reception f0 te evening. It will be : ‘Indies who | vill ipal feature of advent of the que 00d, Miss Charlotte Field, fiss Alida Ghirardelli, Jess re, Miss ol ey, Miss Marie Miss Eva Moody, Miss Mamie Polhemu er, Miss Mai Moody Maud Muilins, rirude Palm Welis, M guer. s Gerstle gave a large din- ner_par Thursday cvening, having as their guests of honor Miss Rose Walter and A. Meriiei, whose recent engagement has been an- nounced. During same week they were tendered a reception by Mr.and Mrs. Joseph Rothschild at their residence on Broadway, and in the near f Mr. and Mrs. Hellman will give & lars r in their honor. General and J. F. Houghton gave g din- ner on_Thu of iast week at their r dence, 1414 Caiifornir strect, in honor of Rev. wnd s, George £ Walk. Covers were laid for welve. Mrs. John Boggs gave an afternoon tea on Saturday Inst in honor of Miss Alice Boggs and Aiss Faunie Coleman, and was assisted in_re- y s, Miss Mae Spring, Miss McNeil, Miss ss Grace Woodrow eman and M neipal topi in juvenile circles ss the wonderful Christmas tree that ged by D. J. Staples, 711 Taylor his four grandchildren, whereby 1 iearts were made glad by the pres- of 01d Santa Claus with & package of some ud for each one. Mr. and Mrs was ar street, . W. Hopkins will give a rtainment at_their resi- nia street. A large num- der lifo ber of invitations have been issued. _ Mrs. 8. H. Boardman a delightful juven- ile party recently in ration of the fourt antiversary of the bLirth of her grandchild, Dora Winn. About forty young people at- tended, and almosi overwlielmed the young guest o1 honor with ents, = . Alban’s Sunday-school gave an entertain- dance last Friday evening, arranged and carried ont to_a successiul termization by William G. Badger, the superintendent. The programme was & very interesting one, and consisted of several seléctious by the Ruby Au- toharp Club, conducted by Miss Ruby Egle- ston; & piano duet by Professor Simon and nce, 2 Master Wallace; a trio by ss Frances Lee and Miss Ruby Eeleston, sutoharp nie Lussier, guitar; on Ben B Minnie Lussler; a Miss L dolin, and Miss R leston, guitar; and lastly & song by N laide Lee. The hall was then cleared, and dancing was inaugu- rated § Miss Harrlet Kirkpatrick entertained a tew of her friends at luncheon at her home last Tuesday. The guest of honor was Miss Naomi Ladd of Hollister. The parlors and tables were attractively decorated with violets and ferns principally. The guests consisted of Mrs. T. Kirkpatrick, Mrs. J. Kirkpatrick, Miss Ada *\:Ther, Miss Dora Knell and Miss Louise ile Mr. and Mrs. John W. Koerner gave a very plessant reception on'the 16th inst. at their home on Pearl street. Dancing was in order during the evening. There was quite a number of theater parties atthe Columbis Theater Monday night to see ¥auny Rice ana her company n “Nancy at the French Ball.” among them one given in honor of Miss Rose Walter, the fiancee of Mr. Mertief, occupying four boxer; Mr. George Bibb, wno, with his party, vecupied two boxes; Mr. J. Magk and pariy of twelve; the Misses Green- baum with s party of seventeen,snd Mr, H. {and especially ! piper, Beverley with a party of twelve. The audience was a very large and fashiongble one. A surprise party was tendered Mr. and Mrs. M. Berthold on their twentieth anniversary of their wedding. The evening was delightfully spent with dancing, singing and games. The iestivities were kept up until a late ‘hour, when the guests departed with best wishes for further auniversaries to their host and hostess. The military and civie section of the Juarez Guard will give a grand ball on Tuesday next, December 31, at Apollo Hall, 810 Pacific street. Miss Crete D. Jones was married on Wednes- ¢, December 18, to Walter d’A. Ehrenberg at ience of the bride’s mother by Rev. 207y, During th last week of the school term the er_children of the I onte Primary ol, Powell street, near Washington, were employed manufacturing preity orna- ments of colored puper and stringing yards of popcorn and eranberries to decorate the much- anticipated Chris tree; and _on Friday afternoon, the 2 delight k W 10 bounds when a permitted to enter that place of mystery, which hud been o carefully wuarded by waichiul sentineis, and there be- hold the tree, resplendent with beautiful orna- ments and adorned as well with their own handiwork. The parents turned out in goodly numbers, in response to dainty notes of invitation, writ- ten by their own little babies, and listened with proud attention and delight to a pro- gramme of recitations, dialozues and motion sonzs, rendered by the first and second erades of Mre, Newhall, Miss Ciase and Miss Webster, respectively; at the end of which the well- earned reward of candies, bonbons, ete., were distributed to each eager little one prosent, and a very successful entertainment brought 0 a merry clos The affair was under the charge of Miss M. C. Stebbins, the acting principal, and was nost charming evidenee of her able manage- ment. The engagement is announced of Frank P. Jacobs aud Miss Pauline Levy, danghter of B. H. Levy. They will receive at 920 O'Farrell street, Saturday, December 28, and Wednes- day, January 1, from 2 to 6. inced of Miss Ade- Stern. They will re- treet on January 1. Mrs. Alired C. Goldner have returned m t wedding trip, and will be pleased to ve their iriends on Saturdey afternoon, \e 23th inst., from 2 to 5. at their residence, 1321 Fillmore street. M Robert Howard Bennett will receive with her mother and sisters, Mrs. Walter Ellis Ro ree and Miss Conner. at 2400 Fillmore ceive at 606 street the first and second Fridays in January. Jrs. Rosina Cohen, who has béen residing at the Baltimore, has leit there and is now stop- | Hotel Save s. L._Waxstock (nee Michael) will ed to see their {riends at their home, Bryant avenue, between Twenty-first and 1ty second str RUBBER-TRADE BOOM. Many Modern Improvements and Much Economy in the Manufacture. One of the most interesting of current events, from the view-point of the electri- cian, is the newly developed pnulqction of rubber in Lagos. In 1839 no imports of article were recorded as received from v, and last year the amount was only $2¢ y gle steamer which left Lazos at the beginning of last month, however, the value of the rubber shipped to Liverpool was $75.000. The new industry has taken hold of the inhabitants of Lagos indiscriminately with the rush of a gold cr Numbers of clerks, small traders and others—even, it vrofessional men—have packed their traps and gone into the interior to take their chance in collecting and manu- turing the gum., The native owners of the forests have a shrewd appreciation of the bearing of this unwonted excitement and are insisting on Ities. Some of them re even entering into the business of pre- paring the rubber for market. Priges in the interior have been consid- erably advanced and there is no longer as much profit as there was at first in pur- chasinz and transporting the products of the coast. The fear among electricians that an ar- tificial rubber would have to be resorted to in consequence of the increasing scarcity of the natural product has, for the pres- ent, at all events, been allayed. In many rubber sources the wholesale destruction of trees by the natives h: been stopped, and odd Kinds of rubber are cropping up from unexpected quarter Several new sorts, together with the familiar little black balls with a white center, come from the west coast of Africa. A new product comes from Madagascar. It has a horny ay much earth. Notnin of its botanical origin. have been received packages of a rubber which anpears very elastic. but which does not bear cutting up well. It is the product of the banyan, and the rapidity and facil- v with which the tree reproduces itself is an important factor, in view of the waste- ful methods still adopted by the natives, who practically destroy the tree to obtain the rubber. Improvements and economy in the man- facture of rubber have also been effected the nse of more efficient machinery, by the adoption of large rollers. So far it has not been possible to eliminate the sulphur contained in vujcan- .d rubber, and all processes for the man- ufacture of old rubber are more or less unsatisfactory.—Pittsburg Dispatch. e s THE BAGPIPE REVILED. To Add to the Insult the Wailing Pipes Were Termed a Dudelsack. A conflict over a matter which to sev- eral of the interested parties appearad to be of mighty consequence, was narrowly averted recently in Justice of the Peace Clarke’s courtroom in Milwaukee. A damage suit was in progress when one of the attorn lluded to a bugpipe as ‘‘an alleged musical nstrument,” and in a AL P Mr. and M be pl is u | moment the trouble was on, there being several Scotchmen 1n court. The suit on trial was that of William Matthseus against the Wisconsin Theater Company, the owner of Wonderland. Mr. Mattheus sued for damages arising from a runaway occasioned by the adver- tising wagon of the museum company. He claimed that while tne wagon was pro- ceeding up the street drawing a Scotch wi.0 was pipmng merrily, his (Mattheeus') horse became frightened. The piper, Mr. Matthzus asserted, was aware that the animal was scared, but neveriheless continned to pipe. The frizhtened horse ran away. ‘When the complaint was read it was found that the bagpipe was described as *an alieged musical instrument.” To this every one present of Scotch ex.raction im- mediately dissented with much heat and for awhile the suit was forgotten in thear- gument over the slizhting term. Authori- ties were cited to show what constitutes a musical instrument, but to no purpose, the attorney for the plaintiff insisting on using ihe term in his address to the jury and the Jus ice was obliged to overrile a motion to restrain the attorney from its use, But the trouble was far from_settled, for when the plaintiff, who isa German and unable to talk English, gave his testimon, be alluded to the bagpipe as ‘‘ein dudel- sack.” Again every Scotchman was on his feet and the argument resumed. Ex- citement ran high for some moments, but the Justice, with the aid of the Constable, was enabied to quiet the belligerents and restore order. The jury, whi:h was evi- cently not composed of Scotchmen, found for the plaintiff, giving him $125 damages and costs.—Evening Wisconsin. ———o—— Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland. Mrs. Cleveland always refers to him as “the President,” both in his presence and in his absence. A member of the Cabinet says that he once heard her call him “Grover” when they were skylarking a little on a fishing trip, but he thinks she was only making fun. He does not know that she has ever called him ‘“‘Grover”’ since, although he has been with them a great deal. metimes she addresses him as “Mr. Cleveland,” but when she speaks of him in the third person she never uses his name. It is always ‘“‘the President says,” or *‘the President went to town,” or “the President likes to live at Woodley better than in the White House.” When the children are present she invariably addresses him as *‘papa.” He calls her “Fravk’ almost invariably, except on occasions of formality or in the presence of strangers. When he speaks of her her absence to the members of the Cabinet and other friends, he usually says “my wife.”—Chicago Record. LEFT A TRAIL OF BLOOD, A Burglar Leaves Sanguinary Evidence of Doing Thor- ough Work. WANTED EVERYTHING IN SIGHT He Ransacked the Residence of Henry Goodall, but Left Some of His Spoils. ‘When Henry Goodall, the propertyman at the Baldwin, and his family returned to their home at 1417 Oak street after the theater on Monday night they found the gaslighted in every room. Asthey had left the house dark they éntered hastily, to learn that the house had been ransacked by burglars, who had left a broad trail of blood from one end of the residence to the other. The men, for there were two of the bur- glars, evidently knew that there wasno one at home in the Goodall house or in the flat just above, occupied by H. R. Ackart, the bookmaker, for they had done some very rough work in trying to pry opena rear window. Failing in this one had broken the upper part of the lower pane of glass, and inserting his hand had turned the hasp. In doing this be cut either his hand or his wrist very severely. They were in too much of a hurry to bind it up, though, and at once entered the house and set to work. From the kitchen they went to every room in the house, evidently hunting for money. They turned down the bed-cov- ers and felt in the pillows, all the time leaving great splashes of blood on every- thing. The bureaus and sideboard were ransacked, and Mr. Goodall’s secretary was broken oven and the papers in it were tossed about and smine(!l with blood. In this secretary they found some silver heiriooms. They took these, as well as all the table silver and two watches be- longing to Mrs. Goodull’s sons. There was only a little money found. The thieves had then laid out two new suits of clothes, several other pieces and an_alarm clock, and had just brought a valise to the room to put them in when Mr. Ackert’s Chinese servant returned. The noise made by the Moncolian sounded as if it were at the Goodalls’ front door, owing to the formation of the house, and the thieves escaped. This was the story told by the stream of blood and the foorprints. Word was sent at once tothe police arnd a sergeant and two men examined the premises. They measured the footprints and are ona hot searh for the burglars. There have been no robberies in the Panhandle district of late. A number of suspicious characters have been hanging around though. and the police have strong suspicions as to whom the guilty parties are, A number of exira watchmen have been ut on by interested parties since the burg- ary. Several new buildings are going up and the watchman of these iias been reen- forced with an assistant. Although there were many valuable articles of vertu and costly ornaments in the Ackert flat, no attempt was made to enter it. The burglars devoted themselves to the lower flat. CHRISTMAS AT HOME [ Continued from Ninth Page.] singing_and music were under the direc- tion of Mr. Holt. Bishop Nichols took his text from the ixth verse of the fourth chapter of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians: “The wledge of the power of God is in the face of Jesus Christ.” His theme was that it was useless to start anew to discuss the divinity and per- sonality of Christ, as the questions early raised were setiled conclusively long ago by the best inteliects of several centuries. During his extemporaneous discourse he said: Knowledge implies study. Study is mnot merely making use of what is around us, but a ing observation of it. g0 back to the past?> Why not have the artment of a university search out the fac hile we wait for tife_pronunciamento? Be- cause, dear friends, it is a subject that occu- pied the inteilect of centuries, and a fair mind will say that the anility and intellect expended upon the discussions during centuries gone by are not exceeded by this nineteenth centur,; A person asks why do you believe he was a Savior? If you wish the ultimate, scientific formula that has stood the test of nineteen centuries you bave it in that we recited this morning in the Nicene creed. In the litany it isexpressed: ‘‘By the mystery of the holy in carnation, good iord deliver us.” In the Te Deum it is, “Thou art the king of glory, O Chri At the close of the Bishop's sermon Frank Coffin sang Adam’s “Noel.”” Com- munion service was held after the regular service. S et Bl CHURCH OF THEE ADVENT. Appropriate Music and Services at Rector Emory's Church on Eleventh Street. There was the typical Christmas service at the Church of the Advent (Episcopal) on Eleventh street, near Market, yester- day—such a celebration of the anniversary of the Savior’s birth as the English church- men enjoy. The church is peculiarly adapted for celebrations of religious festivals, for its interior, with 1ts semi-Gothic outlines, recalls, spiritually, the Yule-tide worshlp of York and Canterpury. The first thing noticed on entering was the effect of the illuminations and decora- tions. Surrounding the high screen which incloses the sanctuary was a five-pointed star ablaze with ignited gas. Beneath this reminder of the “Star of Bethlehem” was a cross of ferns and evergreens, and the eptire screen was decorated with the rich reen of the forest and numercus laurel wreaths. The altar was literally covered with callas and white chrysanthe- mums. All the candelabra’were aflame and the pews of the auditorium were set off with bunches of fern, evergreen and acacia. The rulpit was enveloped in ferns. Rector Jonn A. Emory’s sermon was from Haggai ii:7, ““And 1 will shake all nations and the desire of ail nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.” The scriptural selection was made to serve as a basis for an elaboration of the effect of Christ's ad- vent upon human civilization. The musical programme was very select. Professor H. Slosson Jr. was at the organ and the following programme was given, the choir consisting of sixty men and boys: Processional, Venite, Gloria Patri, Te Deum, Jubilate, Introit, Kyrie, Gloria Tibi, Credo, hymn, offertorium, presentation, Sursum Corda, Sanctus, Benedictus, hymn, Aguus Dei, Gloria in Excelsis, Nunc Dimittis and Retro- cessional. To-day the children’s festival will take place and ““The Land of Nod,’’ an operetta, will be presented. Next Sunday the prizes wiil be distributed to the children. I AT ST. PETER'S CHURCH. Impressive Services Held in Commoration of the Day. The largest ccngregation that has at- tended service in St. Peter’s Episcopal Church on Stockton street, near Filbert, was present yesterday morning, Rev. Mardon D. Wilson officiated, and delivered a brief sermon, taking for his text the angelic song. *Glory to God in the high- est.” Mr. Wilson said that into the very pres- ence of God th2 glorious song of the angels was sung and echoed back upon the earth in that far-off night in Bethlehem. In the highest strains of which men were capa- ble the church of God here miiitant on carth, the church expectant in Paradise joined in their best and purest strains with angels, archangeis and principalities in the one great song of the universe, “‘Glory to God in the highest.” *The reason of the singing,” he said, ‘“is the marvelons object lesson which men call the incarnation, of which one of the deep- est mysteries seems to be that the Infinite God could condescenda to learn by expe- rience the joys and temptations of mortal men, and this incarnavion for the glory of God in these ways; that the infinite thus has fellowship with the finite; that he takes such wonderful and beautiful means of bringing back his children to bimself; that he has made it possible for his ch dren to know divine fellowship, and that through the incarnation he has imparted somewhat his character to us his children. ‘‘Peace on earth means peace with God, peace in the world,” under which an appeal was made ‘‘for peace among the nations of the earth to-day, in neighborhoods, in families and each one with himself.” And then as the echo of the angels’ song, men come to learn that only men of good will can appreciate and set forward this divine peace.” _The musical accompaniment to the ser- vice was rendered by a vested choir of cighteen boys and eizht men, under the direction of Henry Kirk White Jr. The music was lnrge]yy an. arrangement by Tours, comprising - famil.ar Christmas hymuos. . Ladies of the church decorated the inter- ior with Christmas greens beautifully, the chancel being a mass of evergreens and the walls ornamented with garlands run- mnground them. The font was full of fresh cut flowers. T e TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY. Rev. W. H. Yoreland's Text From the Annun- ciation by the Shepherds. The floral decorations of St. Luke's Episcopal Church were elaborate and artistic. Evergreens and real berries were banked around the windows and the en- tire nave was garianded with alternate wreaths and crosses of mistletoe and holly Services were held at7, 8 ana 11 o’clock in the morning, and all were attended by crowded congregations. During the day over 350 members received communion. At 11 o’clock the full choir sang sweetly and impressively under the directorship of Choirmaster W. A. Sabin. Rev. William Hall Moreland preached the Christmas sermon from the text “Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy.” He said in part: “There is a tendency at Christmas to dweil upon externals and to miss the true, deep meaning of the day. Ome of the i direct and beneficent effects of Christmas is the observation of the day by Jews and non-believers. Multitudes are blessed by Christmas who are not yet ready to ac- knowledge Hixn from whom all the bless- ings come. When we think of it as a religious festival our thoughts are occu pied with its externals. We picture the manger, we sing of the angels, we join in the hymns and say ‘How sweet, how beantiful,” and pay little heed to the mean- ing of the words in use. ““You are the child of God; you are not left to perish here, because he has come among you and taken your nature and 1i ed, your life and redeemed and saved you.” e GERMAN CHURCH. After a Musical Fete Kris Eringle Distrib- uted Keepsakes. A very pretty Christmas entertainment was given last evening at the Emanuel Evangelical Church on Twelfth street, of which Rev. H. Cordes is pastor. The fete was under the direction of Superintendent G. F. Ochs and his corps of teachers. The exercises were in the German language and a programme of thirty numbers was rendered in excellent styvle, the singing being particularly meritorious. ‘I'ne feature of the entertainment wasa cantata founded on tne parable of the ‘‘ten virgins.” The house of the bride- groom had been set with stage effects at one side of the pulpit, and ten young ladies robed in white carrying lighted antique lamps personated the virzins. At the proper moment five of the lamps went out for want of oil, and_with a wail- ing chorus the “Foolish Virgins” were consigned to outer darkness. Miss Carrie nk acted as doorkeeper to the bride- groom’s house, and the virgins were Misses Tillie_and Laura Otto, Tillie and I'rieda Meineke, Lillie Koebelin, Emma Jenne, Ida Oprecht, Christine Dall and Tillie and Kate Kohler. During the evening Misses Emma and Amy Fischer, daughters of Rev. F. W. Fischer, a missionary lately re- turned from Japan, sang the Japanese national anthem and some Gospel hymns in the Japanese language. The two girls were born in Japan and wore the native costume. The entertainment closed with the appearance of Kris Kringle, who threw candies among tne audience and dis- tributed presents from a brilliantly lighted tree. Tl MAREUS LUTHERAN. Choice Vooal and Instrumental Musio—Rev. J. Fuendeling's Sermon. At St. Markus German Evangelical Luth- eran Church there were elaborate services, consisting of excellent choral and organ music. An organ prelude by Rinck began the exercises, and was followed by the singing of the hymn 0O, for a Thousand Tongues.” The musical programme also comprised *“Kyrie,”” by Reinecke, ‘‘Gloria Patria,” by C. Greith, “Gloria in Excelsis,” by Ant. F. Suriano, “‘Noel,” by Adam, a Christmas authem by Werner, “Lord, How ShallI Be Meeting ?”’ the Christmas chorus, “This 1s a Faithful Saying’’ and a postlude by Bach. Rev. J. Fuendeling preached from the text, “‘Bebold, I bring you good tidings of great joy.” In the course of his sermon he asserted that people were too much in- clined to forget or iznore the significance of the coming of Christ, and kept them- selves too far apart from God, except on special occasions and days of worship. The edifice of the congregation is a new one, which was completed only last March, and this was consequently the first Christ- mas service held therein.” The decorations were few, only the chancel and altar being garlanded with choice flowers and vines. But the absence of floral decorations was in reality the evidence of extreme good taste, as the highly artistic finish of the interior is all-sufficient, its chaste and simple white and gold being in exquisite harmony with the richly colored stained- glass windows. Llsagh SALVATION ARMY FPEAST. Nearly Two Thousand People Fed at the 01d Wigwam, The Salvation Army gave a feast to the unprovided at the olda Wigwam Theater, corner of Geary and Stockton streets, yes- terday. Fully 2000 people came in re- sponse to the general invitation issued by the army, and all feasted to tue full. There were ten tables laden with roast turkey, beef, mutton and delicacies innu- merable. For several hours the good men and women in charge of the festival ca- tered to the wants of their grateful pa- trons. There was great rejoicing, both. among those who carved and served the turkey those who dispatched the bird. Packages of fruitand candy were given to each person as the Pmenion of thank- ful souls dp-sscd out. There were toys for the children and wholesome articles for the elder fclk. ‘The feast was indeed a pronounced suc- 8T, cess, and Ensign McFee and his_comrades huvetreuon to feel proud of their achieve- ment. At 8t. Joseph's, There was a peculiarly impressive ser- vice at St. Joseph’s, Tenth and Howard streets. The altar, brilliant with illumi- nated candles, was decorated tastefully with hollyberries, tearoses and mossroses. Rev. Father McDonnell celebrated mass. Rev. Father Collins delivered a sermon. His text was *‘Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of good will.” A large congregation was edified by the eloquent discours At the City Prison. The Supervisors sent several turkeys to the City Prison yesterday, and Sergeant Lindheimer contributed a big pig, which was roasted and eaten along with the turkeys by the prisoners and ‘‘trusties,” who thoroughly enjoyed their Chrisimas dinner. SOME POPULAR EXPRESSIONS. Curiosities of American Speech Accord- ing to a Dialect Society. Is a pancake fried or baked, or simply conked? Isit,after all, really a pancake and not rather a griddle cake, a flannel cake, a buckwheat or a flapjack? What is adoughnut? When you tear your trous- ers on a sharp point what is the first word you instinctively apply to the rectangular rent; tramp patch, barn door or weewary, as says the New Englander, or is it a win- klenawk, or nicklehawk, as New Yorkers «ay? What do you mean by dingbats? How widespread is the use of the shimmy? Such are the problemsset by the American Dialect Society in_part eight of its notes, which will be publisbed 1n a few days. Three distinct recipes for the preparation of doughnuis are promulgated by the so- ciety. Dough, raised with yeast, sweet- ened and spiced, cut into cubes, whnich, when fried in a deep vessel with hot fat, become round lumps, forms the doughnut of Connecticut. By substituting soda or saleratus for yeast, and cuttiug the paste into circles or twists, you have tha dough- nut of Massachusetts, which the Dutch settler cails the olykoek and others the cruller; while the native of Connecti- cutdistinguishes between the twisted biled cake and the round jumble. 1f merely unseasoned dough be used you have the | fried bread of Massachusetts, called in Cape Cod seventy-fours, and elsewhere, it seems, doughnuts. The dingbat has had an_adventurerous career. Starting as a ball of dirt on the legs of sheep in Ver- mont, it becomes a smart spank to the Northern New Englander, a squabble, a flying missile and money to tne Maine lumberman, the biscuit of the New En, land boarding-school, while in Georgia it has turned to a mother’s kiss, and you may say of the girl you admire, “*She is a| regular dingbat.” t must not be inferred that culinary and domestic matters alone engross the so- ciety’s attention, though it is at home that the careless words and phrases are most likely to be used which deviate from literary forms, but have passed from mouth to mouth since the man first spoke. This part of dialect notes contains no less than 600 new words and usages, collected throughout the land, some poetical, many picturesque and all curious and interesting, In the lennessee mountains, streams flowing from the east are sunrise waters, a mule that you can trust is a confidential mule, a railroad train is a smoke wagon, a kiss is a smouch, cheese is plural, with a singular chee, sugar is sweetening; a man subject to fits is fitified, ana very much is a heap sight, or a good few, or some sev- eral, or way yander. A man points to a hillside and tells you that he “lives on yon coast” and has a ‘“‘good scope of land,” he greets you with ‘“How do you come on ?"’ and asks you to *‘Come in and rest your hat.'" A toothbrush to him means a snuffstick, ill means cross, juberous timid, fitsy mean, popular styl- 1sh, his past tenses are fotch and holp and seed and squez and swole; he tells you that “sickness is mighty interruptin’,” that it is “a gosh wet spell;” and ‘‘hit’s too-my-goodness cold,” that he has ‘“the beatenest boy and talkenest old woman you ever see,” and that that young flirt is “tryin’ to get a chaw on a feller.”” The sky-baked or stay-at-home Jersey matron coosters or potters around the house, calls her preserves do-ups, pork spack, her husband, if need be, a iobscouse or loper, meaning a worthless fellow. She sides up or cleans up or goes struling, wasting time about tke village, but she cares not a Dutch cuss about going down country, that is to New York City. Coof is the name for an off-islander in Nantucket, on Mount Desert the summer visitor is a rusticrata, a stupid Vermonter is a dodunk, a goober grubber aigs peanuts in Tennessee. When a man is confused he is mommixed in Kentucky, he1s muxed up in Otsego County, galleyied in New Bed- ford. stodged in Indiana, and wuzzled in New York. “1 don’t hurt fer it,” means “I don’t care”” in Mississippi, while I don’t mind it a bit”” implies terror in North Car- olina, wherea great calamity isscandalous. The sunset is day on the Virginia coast. A man has large money in Cincinnati, he has scuds of it in Missouri, and a session of it in_Georgia. When a Terre Haute citizen is suilen he is putchiky, and if too weak to get out of bed he is on the lift, while a pawky Ohioan is onme in poor health, and a mentally weak Kentuckian is slack-twisted. Hogo is a strong smell in New Hampshire, where a severe storm is a tan toaster. Missouri slush is sposh. Green corn remains roast’n ear in Florida, even when it is canned, and there a cow may give birth to a yearling. The farmers of Orange and Sullivan counties have the reprehensible practice of making their maple syrup by melting the sugar; this they call alamagoozleum. On Staten Island splendid is galloptious, tidbits are manavelins, and to tarn is_to tarve. Patchogue says noink and suink for nothing and something. In the north- western part of the State, when two young hearts begin to beat as one they are said to be scamulgulated. The Itha- can on entering the house hangs up his shock, his hat and coat. The Otsego thief when caught looks meecking or guilty, even when he has stolen a mere smitten, a very small quan- tity. Quarter eagles must be more com- mon in the central part of the State than in the city, for they are still krown as twenty-shilling pieces, and silver dollars as hardtack. There slonchy is loplolly, sticky is tacky, you are hushed when you are tired, you change off when you move, you go large when you are extravagant, you pronounce hoax a dissyllable, you pooster about when you are fussy, you are in a yang when in a hurry, and when vio- lent you do things kabang, kachunk, koflop, kaslam.—New York Sun. e e Superfluous Eating. Growth and waste and repair goonina nearly uniform way the whole year through, but the amount necessary for these operations or purposes is surpris- ingly small. The generation of bodily heat requires a most variable quantity of foog. In winter, with the tem- perature of the external air at zero, the temperature of the blood in healthy persons is 98.3 degrees; and when the heat of summer drives the mercury of tie thermometer nearly to or above that mark, the blood still register 98.3 dearees. The marvelous mechanism by which this uniform blood temperature is maintained at all seasons is not necessary to consider; but it must be evident to every one that the force needed to raise the temperature of the whole body to nearly 100 degrees in winter is no longer needed in the summer. The total amount of food needed for re- pair, for growth and for heating, physiol- ogy teaches us, is much less than is gener- ally imagined, and it impresses us with the truth of the great surgeon Abernethy’s saying, that “‘one-fourth of what we eat keeps us, and the other three-fourths we keep at the peril of our lives.” In winter we burn up the surplus food with a lim- ited amount of extra exertion. In sum- mer we get rid of it literally at some extra risk to health, and. of course, to life. We cannot burn it. Our vital furnaces are banked, and we worry the most important working organs with the extra exertion of removing what would better never have been taken into the stomach.—British Medical Journal. SAN FRANCISCO ‘‘CALL.™ BUSINESS OFFICE ofthe San Francis o CALL~ #3C Market street, open untll 12 o'ciock every Bigbtin the vear. BRANCH OFFICES—530 Montgomery street, correr Clay: spen until 9:30 o'clock. F5¢ Hayes screet, open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. BW .corner Sixteenth and Missiou strests, opes ©rtil fo'clock. 2E1¢ Mission street, open untfl 8 o'clock. 116 Nintk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. | o PO-UAY at 10 o'clock A. 3. | WILLIAM C. ~PRAGUE, 78, Pembroke, Maine. Master Masons are invited | to attend. By order of the W. M. | ADOLPH KRONBERG. Secretary. SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO LODG No. 212, F. and A. M., meeis this evening at 7:30 o'clock. for installation of officers, All M. M.are cordially invited. By order of the Master. OTICE OF MEETINGS. DORIC TODGE NO. 216, F. AND A. M., 121 Eddy st.— Officers and ed that a special meeting. memb will be HARE @ IMPROVED ORDER OF RED Men—To all members, greeting: % You are cordially invited to attend a meeting at Goldea Gate Hall, 625 Sutter stree:, on SATURDAY, December 28, 1895, for the purpose of extending a fraternal welcome to Great Inco- honee Andrew H. Paton. All members in jes- £ion of the universal password are entitled to ad- mission free of charge. The adoption degree will be exemplified by a selected team of tribal chiefs. The council fire will be kindled at the eight run, setting of the sun. Arrive on time. Attest: A. JACKSON, Great Sachem. CHAS F. BURGMAN, GGreat Chief of Records. MCISCO SCOTTISH Thistle Club's regular meeting THIS EVENING at 8 o'clock at 82 O’Farrell st 50 _s]mq:m conceri.. AME AL CRLY M Father Mathew Total Absti- nence and Benevolent Soclety No. 1. of San Fran- cisco, will be held at Academy Hall, 927 Mission on FRIDAY EVENI inst. at 8 o'clock. Busiuess—Election of physician, etc. Fines will be imposed for non-attendance. W. M. GILL § E, President. J. M. MCGUIRE cret. TON #F RIGGERSA 58 Association ¥ .—The _detail from Fobert Buckley to James Collins inclusive ure hereby notified to assemble at their hall Thurs- day morning at § o’clock sharp to_pay the last tri- bute of respect to their late brother WILLIAM FL By order M. J. MORAN, President. k. DURHAM, Rec. Sec. LA CANDELARIA MINING COM- pany—A nnual meeting for election of oflicers and transaction of business will be held on SAT- URDAY, December 28, 1885, at 10 o'clock . M., at 530 Callfornia street. Room 60, San Francisco. By order of the Board of Trustees. ORGE A. HILL, Secretar: DIVIDEND NOTIC HUMBOLDT SAVINGS AND LOAN Society, 18 Geary st.—The directors have de- clared the foliowing semi-annual dividends: 4.32 per cent per annum on term, and 3.60 per cent payable on and after W DIVIDEN ings Bank of San Francisc the half year ending December 31, 1895, a di dend has been declared at the rate of four and one- fifth (4.20) per cent per annum on term deposits and three and one-half (:%.50) per ceni per annum on ordinary deposits, free of taxes, payable on and aiter Thursday, January 2, 1896. ORY, Casnier. £ FRAN- alifornia street, corner Webb. For th- bai year ending with the 31st of December, 1895, a dividend has been de- clured at the rate per annum of four and thirty- two one-hundredths (4 32-100) per cent on term deposits and three and six-tenths (3 6-10) per cent on ordinary deposits, free of taxes, payable on and after Thursday, the 2d of January, 1896. LOVELL WHIT Cashle SYTUATIONS WANTED—Continued. 5 < BY NGLISH- TANTED_SITUATION BY AN B or watchman: has traveled the Continent of Ht- rope. has many years of experlence and Without encumbrance: 8 years' reference from present en this office. : X N VORK GOK FOR EANCH OR WO vlace, am & first-class £00¢ han and driv.r, good m e MOTSOll work for waxes to sult the 1y references. Address A. D.y D geutleman’s private D MAN AXD WIFE WOULD tion on fruit ranch: man well experi- womin good 00k orcall MGk enced in fru no childre (VARDENER place in a privat Lis bu; ; understands Cail Oilice. BY COOK, GC ; good reference. WITH ARS wants the charge of small eng : will_accept any wages: or jol GINEE Call HINESE A office. J. W.JIM O ©F WAITRE! forni; housegirls for Alameda, 5 in family see party in office at 10 A. .- housesirl for Vallejo st.. 3 in family, $20: young girl to assisc in small restaurant, #:0. room, etc.; young Ger- man_ein_forfjlousework on Geary st 15 housegirl. Pacific uve., 15, etc.; nursegiri, child 3 years old, $15; nursexirl, Alameda, middie-aged woman, 3 in familv, $12; housegirl, ¢ 3 in family, $15; housegirl, Vallejo s $15; housegirl, Valencia st., $15 and’ Webster,' $15: Lousegirl, housegirl, Twentieth and Casiro, $15: 7 3 10 and $12 a month. nice families: 7 Swedish and 3 Dauish girls, housework, EMPOYMENT AGENCY, 749 GTIRL, German or Scandi- girl for housewor! young nursegirls. $15; in- and large number of girls for ; French nurse, navian cook, no wash, § short distance, stitution cook, cooking and housework in city and country. CROSETT & CO.. 812 Sutter st. JRENCH NURSERY GOVER : be a good seamstress. MISS CULLE MUST , 105 $26; Pinole, $15; Fresno. §1 meda, §: 10 waitresses, call early; o housework cirls, and $25; several younz zirls, assist, $10 to $15. ULLEN, 105 Stock:ou s man preferred, two in family, moderaie good permanent home to right party. ~Appl 6th, or Sunday, 29th, he- tween hours of 11 and 4. \YANTED—A O NED Wwoman to take care of 1 ; must know how to handlean infant; referencesrequired. Apply 1829 Santa Clara ave., Alameda. '\mx.\.\‘ TO TAKE CHARGE OF SMALL house in exchange for board and room. Call between 12 and 2 p. M., 635 Grove st. « ages $10. 408 Sanchez st. D TO DO LIGHT HOUSE- 721 Eighteenth st (1 IRL FOR GENERAL HOUSEWORK. 1221 Eddy st. % VIKL, 12 OR 14, TO ASSIST IN HOUSE- worl 7 Stevenson st. OUNG GIRL TO TAKE CARE OF CHIL- dren. 529 Cappst. & & QCHOOL OF CUTT FITTING AND edged best cutter ) dressmaking, under ackno R. L. JONES, 505 and fitter in the State. MRS TAILOR SUIT! 210 Market SPECIAL NOTICES. SAMPLES FREE AT THE NEW COS- metic Parlors, room 46, 850 Market st. B CORNS REMOVED WITHOUT KNTFE. Chiropodic Institute, roow 22, 906 Market. 75 CORNS, INGROWING NAILS, SUCCESS- fully treated. DR. LLOYD, Lurline Baths. BAD TENANTS EJECTED FOR B4 Collections made, city or country. Pacific Collection Co., 415 Montgy st., room 6, Tel. 5580. B, JitS. ROBE, 1035 MARKET ST., ROOM 8, second floor; genuine massage treatment. T! tollet preparations; hairdressing, manicuring, Carmel Cos- beauty culture taught: free to agents. metic Company, 131 Post st. OST CONVENIENT AND KESPE Winchester House. 44 Third st., near Marke 200 rooms: 25¢ to $1 50 per night: $1 50 to 86 per free bus to and trom the 7 ANTED—-YOUNG L complete course in milliner: them poritions in spring: rates re the New Institut 0 LEARN A will guarantee sonable. Call at D AND FLOORS rates: payment for C 242 Sutter. = ROOMS WHI ED.§1 UP: PAPER- ed 83 50 uv. 31714 Third. Georze Hartman. 2 %> COLLES NS: TENANTS EJECTE] 10: costs paid. 420 Montgo WINDOWS CLEAN scrubbed; reasonable C damages guaranteed. SITUATLO! MPLOY ME: QWEDISH-GERMAN » fice. 1134 Antonio st., off Jones, near Ell ADY WISHES MENDING OR PLATN ing: gentlemen’s clothing a specialty. Call Howard st., roown 33. ENCED GERMAN LADY WISHES of any kina by the day or week: $1 per day. Call 120 Shipley st. M WOMAN, FIRST-CLASS AW chambermaid or will rent iodging-house. MRS, ROOS, 681 Mission st., Foom 9. WANTED BY BOMPETENT ) Kastern girl as cook or general housekeeper in private family: good references. Call or address 3138 Sixteenth st. IRL OF 15 WISHES PLACE IN AMER- ¥ ican family to do housework for good home and small wages. Call grocery, Herman and Waller s JLDERLY LADY WOULD LIKE TO GO TO New York as chaperone 1or young people or to care for an invalid; references. Address E. L., box 77, Call Oftice. EFINED YOUNG LADY champerwork and sewin; changed. 511 Eddy R DESIRES TO DO references ex- < A HES A P 0 AS working housekeeper; fine American cook and seamstress and is competent to take entire charge of any house; prefers country; the best of refer- ences from present employer. Address 1., box 48, this oflice FLEST-CLASS COOK AND SECG wants work. Addre: NG LADY W. seper. Room b G EASTERN WIDOW D tion as housekeeper. Room 10, 2815 Sixth st. JLDERLY LADY, SRANGER, OWNING machine, desires’ a_position as companion; Seamstress, light_housework, eic.: elderly people preferred: home more an object than wages. Ad- Cal E sition in lodging-house Turk st NCHESTER HOUSE, 44 THIRD ST, Mar} electric lights in_every room’: 200 rooms; 25¢ to 8150 pernight; $150 to $6 per week free pus to and from the ferry. FOUNG GIRL FROM THE EAST DESIRES a position to care for children and sew. Address 72014 Folsom st., S. F. OUSEKEEPER—LADY WISHES POSITION a8 housekeeper or plain sewing. 137 Seventh st.. room 1. ANTED—BY AN AMERICAN LADY,AGE 10, a position as_housekeeper for bahelor or widower. _Address, for one week, MRS, F. REY- NOLDS, Oakland P. O. YO WIDOW WISHES A POSITION AS typewriter., Call at 87334 Market st., room 13, secona tloor. V OUNG LADY WANTS housekeeper or any light work. Elis st , room 2, first floor. ATEST XMAS SILK PLUSH CAPES, 85 90 L4 up. v York Suit. House, 1210 Market st. W ANTED—POSITION AS COMPANION AND nurse (0 invalla by comp_tentrefined lady; no objection to leaving the city. Address L. E., Oak- land Call Office. INCHEST! 5. 44 THIRD ST, NR. Market; 200 rooms: 25¢ to S1 50 per night; $1 50 to §6 per week ; convenient and respectable; iree bus to and from the ferry. GIRL TRES POSI- POSITION a8 Apply 706 SITUATIONS WA .TED-MALE. C.G. COOK'S SOC. SUPPLIES COOKS: ALL -branches:short notice. i 4 Geary. ;tel.Grant 46. P UNTKR & CO., CHINESE AND JAPAN- oas ewplormiat office, 17 Webb st.. below a and tel. 231. ST. 20 640 Clay st. JLDERLY MAN, WHO DOES NOT SMOKE or drink, who speaks German and English and who is accustomed to obey orders to the letier, wishes 4 situation as nurse. Address B. B., box 10, Calt Oftice. TEADY, SOBER YOUNG MAN WANTS V) place in wholesale house as porier where is chance of promotior. Address ., box 4, this office. IDDLE-AGED MAXN, SUBEK AND RELL able, wishes & situation at any kiud of worl can do carpenter work: used to farms and care of place; can drive. Address L. G., box 86, Call. ORNING 18 Missios 7 31 THIKD, N Market—Electric iights in very room rooms: 25¢ to $1 60 per pight; $1 50 to $6 per weel ree bus 10 #nd from the ferry. AWRENCE PATTE HOUSE—DRESS- cutting school. 1231 Market st..bet. Sth and 9th, UPILS WANT POSITIO L teed atterns 25¢ up- latest skirts MALE HELP WANTED. TAGE-DRIV ECOND COOK, 8353 waiter-hoy, ranch teamster and wife to cook, $:0. K. T. WARD & CO., 608 and 610 Clay st. W ANTED—GERMAN PORTER. $30; FAF er, $15: young sailor to care for boats, $2 vegetable gardener, on shares; tiemakers: country hotel cook, $35, and others. Apply toJ. F. CKO- 628 Sacramento s MENT CALL SE rezarv Barbe; rant ave. 8. FU ANTED — BY WHOLKSALE JEWELR house, a boy living with bis parents. Write application in own handwritinz. A. B., box 285, Call Office; must furnish referen, YEARS OLD TO LE ress W. P., box 18, Call Offic: KSMITH: MU=T BE HELI RN UN iinz. D ON YOU.\:; MAN ani plaine QECOND HA La_ery, & rkin st F, CARPENTERS, CITY WORK. MARTIN'S employment agency, 749 Market st. W aNTE FOU’ BLA(K. 91143 LAKKIN ST, 'V between Geary ard Post. NDUSTRIOUS MAN, WITH $i0 CASH, CAN secure_steady, profitable employment by ad- box 39, Call Officy ARBER-SHOP FOR SALE. 524 EA’ street. ARBER FIXTURES FOR SALE: ACCOUNT removal. 1656 Mission st., near Thirteen(h. 100 5c; CLEAN towel to each and bay rum free: hair cut, 10c; firs-class workmen. 1412 Monigomery ave EST MEAL ON EARTH: WELL COOKED: 8 courses, 10c, at Seaitle Restaurant, 137 Fourth 3 CHAIRS; MUST BE SOLD; wa D—MEN WHO DO NOT RECEIVE their wages (0 place accounts with us; law an commercial collection: no charge unless successtul. KNOX COLLECTION AGE: . 110 Sutter, r. EW WALDO HOUSE, 765 MISSION, BET. Third and Fourth—Single furnished rooms, 15cup; week, S1 up; open all night. EARN A TRADE-LADIES AND GENT men students wanted; only 8 tools given, write for catalog: Barber Collége, 116 W LCHE TR HOUSE, 44 THIRT Market; 200 rooms, 25 cents a Dight Toom: free bus to and from the ferr, and 20c a night, including coftee and fo 624 Washington st. ANTED—MEN TO GET BOTTLE steam beer. 5¢; bottle wine, Gc. AN (ED—SINGLE ROOMS, 15 A DAY; §1 week; rooms for two, 25¢ a day, $1 50 & week; reading-room: daily papers. 36 Ciay st. le [§ : 40c: DONE while you wait. 635 Market, opp. Palace Horel, \ims's SOLE c; HEELS, 26c: DONE 1IN 15 AWl ‘minutes, while you wait. 1197 Market. cor. ¥h, EN'S SHOES HALF-SOLED 40c, LADT 3c; done in 10 minutes. 959 Howard st > TLINDELL HOUSE, SIXTH AND HOWARD= single furnished rooms: 75¢ week, 15¢ night, ALBLKRS, FUR EMPLOY M Barbers’ Assn.. 12 Sevenh. 1 T.EARN A TRADE_SIGN OR PICTORIAL 4 painting taught for $5: great o) LEVY, 35 Eaghtn st., Sau Franciscor Y+ D ”Aumfiz;' PO B X 1ment secretary. ‘V‘A.\'TED—LABUP‘ RS AND 10 know that Ed Eolkin, Re; tor, still runs Denver House, 21 large rooms: 25¢ per nigh: EMPLOY- ELL. 657 Clay MECHANICS :’lo '1}'?1‘;‘5! proprie- 8t.; 8160 85 por weei. TOUNG MAN OF 21, UNDERSTANDS THE grocery Lusiness, & so the care of horses, de- sires a position in thui line or anv kind, here or elsewhere. Address G., box 77, Call. & ILL SOME BROTHER ODD FELLOW help a destitute brother 1o some Kind of work; am carpenter by trade. Address I. 0. 0. F., 1031 OZART, 819 ELLIS, KOOMS hizht, $1 23 10 55 weeks repin M e 25 cents per ni 1, 31 2 Facitic House .Commerclu“ b Market st. . and Leid, ANTED—SITUATION AS COOK OX STEW- MENSSECOND-HANDED S ard by oneof many years' experience, both 400 nesiiy mew. o0 to §) Lbuts?fiuix‘o o) ashore and at sea. Aadress E. P. BUCKLEY, 738 TEY acie HOUSE, %57 Ma Rl st. Fituh ave., near D st. Jow Sixth, for a room': 250 a ighes gy Sl BB TAN POSITION BY A YOUNG MAR- $1a week. ried man of Boston as an experienced porter in drug store or understands the moided shoe counter business or will work at any business. Address 21343 Post st., Sun Francisco. | TUST OUT: NEW MACHTNG ing_shoes: call and seerl buss utes, done while you FOR REPATR- see: half-soled |n"1§fnr|& wai 1 repairt utes. done ing a¢ gy Llirng done by Al price: worl B, bet. First and S!eo: .un'-